Sentence examples for a god outside from inspiring English sources

Rather than a God outside who happened to smile favorably upon me, this realization is of an aspect of myself, which I choose to call Buddha, who kept coming back and kept coming back to trade bliss for pain, deep knowledge for deep sleep, until the rest of me could get it, use it, apply it and do it.

Suzanne waits for him in her hospital like a god outside time, a Norma Desmond surrounded by frozen relics.

The emperor, for example, might openly offer personal veneration to his favourite god, a god outside the traditional Roman circle, while also practicing a more conventional piety.

Foster's Nietzsche spoke not to atheists certain in their unbelief, but rather to spiritual seekers unconvinced by scientific answers to theological questions, unsatisfied by secular forms of enchantment, and yet persuaded that a "God outside the cosmos is dead".

A God outside of time might know that at midnight on 1 July 2010 certain things occur, but could God know when it is now that time?

To the Tibetan people, he is regarded as a god, but to the outside world he is "a secular divinity of sorts, and for that there is less precedent".

Wiman finds that the integrity of a poem, which is "its own code to its own absolute and irreducible clarity," is similar to that of a God who lives "not outside of reality but in it, of it, though in ways it takes patience and imagination to perceive".

Long before the great earthquake struck the country like a vengeful god, the outside world, and Americans especially, described, defined, marked Haiti most of all by its suffering.

The American Yoga Association believes religion is based upon the worship of a God that exist outside oneself.

An example of a putatively eternal being in this sense is a God conceived as existing outside of time.

The Reverend Fred Phelps, toting a God Hates Fags placard outside a military funeral and resembling a sack of defective vinegar stuffed into in an old Apex One Kansas Jayhawks windbreaker, is inarguably a hater.